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Under My Thumb

Posted on May 29, 2012

Best rule of thumb in every area of your life: know your audience. Having a dinner party? Serving Veal Prince Orlov to your vegan friends won’t be appreciated. Giving a speech to a bunch of 6 year olds? You’ll get … Continue reading →

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Don’t Drink The Water

Posted on May 22, 2012

When Kevin bought his West Seattle house over a decade ago, he inherited a rhubarb plant of colossal proportions. For years it grew and grew, then wilted, withered and died. I’m not sure I even knew what it was until … Continue reading →

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(You’ve Got To) Work For Love

Posted on May 17, 2012

Have you even wondered how this baker-blogger makes ends meet; buys all that butter for batter? No? Well, darn it, I am going to tell you anyway. I work in the music business mostly behind the scenes, sometimes in front … Continue reading →

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It’s A Mistake

Posted on May 10, 2012

(If titling my blog after a Staind song wouldn’t hasten the four horsemen of The Apocalypse, I would have called today’s blog ‘It’s Been A While’. It’s not that I haven’t been baking; it’s that I’ve been cheating on my … Continue reading →

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Life Is Hard

Posted on April 16, 2012

…but really, does it have to be? Sometimes hard is in your head, I know because it used to be in mine. This week, I started my new full time job at Jet City Stream, a brand new Seattle start-up, … Continue reading →

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Rise

Posted on April 8, 2012

  The Easter Bunny has been very good to me. Over the years, he has brought me beautiful colored eggs, candy, kaleidoscopes, chocolate bunnies, and one special year, a snowboard. The Black Widow But the best Easter gift I have … Continue reading →

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Shining Star

Posted on April 4, 2012

Star Anna is the first of several local musicians to get the string treatment from the Synergia NW Orchestra in preparation for Music Matters Live, May 12th at The Paramount Theatre. To be more precise, Star and Justin Davis (of … Continue reading →

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It’s The End Of The Cupcake As We Know It

Posted on March 25, 2012

And I feel fine. Here’s proof that there were birthdays before we blogged about birthdays: The Ghost Of Pete’s Birthday Past Found deep in the digital archives, that’s me with a platter of pre-Shawnologue cupcakes, handcrafted for our friend Pete’s … Continue reading →

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Mother’s Milk

Posted on March 16, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, I heard my very good friend, Jodi Brothers, mention on the air of the radio show she appears on that she’d always wanted to milk a cow. She’s a Jersey girl, after all. I grabbed … Continue reading →

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Pretty On The Inside

Posted on March 13, 2012

Why would anyone bake an ugly cake? I’m not saying every cake needs to look like the outrageous (and possibly inedible) whirling, spinning, moulded, folded fondant creations you see on Cake Boss. A simple chocolate cake looks beautiful to me. … Continue reading →

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